Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-10-14

on The incline, following the ledge,
above the tunnel, is down liz feet.
1t is a large excavation, twelve or
fifteen feet wide, and about ten feet
high, following down on the vein.
1t is believed that the entire ten feet
is good milling ore. At the bottom
OF the incline drift has been started,
running east to tap the footwall.
The width of the ledge will not be
known until this wall is tapped, and
there is no certainty that they have
the hanging wall. The miners at
work in the incline estimate that they
now have out about 5000 tons of ore.
After getting a square dinner at the
company's boarding house, wa struck
out about one o'clock to climb to the
summit, take a more extended view
of the district, and at the same time
prospect for deer, bear, goats and elk,
which abound in that region, and al
SO white bear, which number of
the boys reported having seen in that
section. Oliver, like ourself, has, in
tae language of the Missourian, "a
strong weakness" for packing gun
when he goes rambling through the
mountains; so we were both armed
with rifles, and were ready for any
kind of big game that might jump
up ssferninst u.s." Oliver took the
lead and made bee line for goat
mountain. We had hunted most all
kinds of big game except goats,
which we'd never seen, and interro-
gated Oliver as to the nature, color,
habits, and general appearance of
this animal, ard the shape of his
tracks. Oliver whitfield out stick,
cut off square at both ends, two inch
es long and half an inch wide and
with it he made two impressions, a
quarter of an inch apart, in the sands
of Goat Mountain, and said: "Tha,
is an average sized goat track, cor
rectly formed in all its parts" Their
he added: "When you drop you
lockers on big SNOWFALL with legs
monkeying around among the rocks
draw your gun and blaze away at it
and if you make good shot you'll
tumble goat" Then we separated
, to climb the rocks of Goat Mountain
We saw tracks like that marked GU
bv Oliver on the sand with stick
Then we looked sharp for the four
footed SNOWFALL, and in few minute
:, espied him among the rocks, about
quarter of mile away, drew dow
the gun, aimed ten or fifteen fee
high and pulled trigger. The bulle
just missed him, striking few inch
:, es above him. Next shot we aime
a little lower, and the big snowba
came rolling down the mountain
three hundred pounder-the goat
not the mountain. If any one d. ubt
:, the truthfulness of this goat yarn, a
they have to do is to come to tn
y Office in few days and examine I'll
= hide, which we sent to the capital
have tanned. When we returned
" camp, Oliver told the boys we ha
" captured the famous white bear, an
" exhibited the hide as proof. Olive
" being more earnest, experience
- inspirational, practical, polished al
% plausible liar, and knowing our in
- bility to spin out prevarlcatlon al
W stick to it, and give all the details
r how he made for US and ''treed US
~ ~ bluff of rocks" and all the starth'
~ details of daring adventure to co
~ vince the boys that we had real
III captured the white bear-Ollv
voluntarily agreed to tackle the tas
e' and he acquitted himself with uns'
&c passable ability, and by winking WI
;. his off eye at few of the boys W
~ couldn't be 'fooled" on goat SIX
no got them to confirm what he had si
$50 about it being genuine white b'
aa that had strayed off from the Nor
'o' Pole. The boys flocked in from
* around to see the hide of the wh
OF bear, and those who had seen
ao' running wild swore 1t was the sa
aw one, and that they knew they WI
ng correct, Notwithstanding some
ent tried to convince them that they
ons only seen a goat. After Oliver
Jaw the goat out of the bag" and told
an- boys the square-toed truth, those
ted reported that they had seen WI
hear still stuck to it, and swore
nth they examined his tracks and &C
the not be deceived therein.
We NoTEs.